Report reveals fall in violent attacks in England and Wales

There has been a fall in the number of violent attacks requiring hospital treatment, new figures show.

Experts at Cardiff University said the number of people attending A&E with violence-related injuries fell by more than 10,000 (four per cent) last year to an estimated total of 307,998.

Violent attacks on 18 to 30-year-olds were down 3.8 per cent in 2011 compared with 2010 - a figure that was welcomed by Professor Jonathan Shepherd, director of the university's violence and society research group.

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'This continues a trend identified in 2010 and is likely to be linked to policing, community partnerships and public health interventions,' he remarked.

Encouragingly, there was also a 14 per cent fall in the number of young children needing emergency hospital treatment as a result of violence in 2011. This follows a rise in such cases over the previous two years.

Professor Shepherd added that this reversal in violence-related harm to small children 'may well reflect government efforts to tackle this problem'.

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